School - # of 8+ win seasons, # of 10+ win seasons in the last 20 years
Alabama - 17, 17
Oklahoma - 19, 15
Georgia - 19, 14
LSU - 17, 10
Texas - 13, 8
Florida - 12, 6
Missouri - 10, 6
Auburn - 13, 5
Tennessee - 7, 3
Ole Miss - 7, 3
South Carolina - 7, 3
Arkansas - 7, 3
Kentucky - 5, 2
Texas A&M - 11, 1
Mississippi State - 8, 1
Vanderbilt - 2, 0
I was thinking about how to measure it, and there are really two things that matter: good seasons, so eight wins or more, and great seasons, so ten wins or more. If you have more good and great seasons, that builds up your football prestige, and the higher your prestige, the higher you are in the SEC hierarchy. I picked a 20 year range because once a season is more than 20 years ago it gets kind of antiquated and less relevant.
Mizzou comes out about in the middle, bolstered by the great Pinkel years, plus Drinkwitz is getting us back to that level this year. I really do think we can keep having that kind of success thanks to the new rules with NIL and the transfer portal. For whatever reason, historically, our boosters weren’t playing the bag man game as much or as well as the football powers. But we seem to be playing the NIL game quite well. So I predict over the next 10 to 20 years, our place on this list will be just as good or better. I doubt we’ll get to the elite level of an LSU or a Georgia, but we can live in that range that Texas/Florida/Auburn/Mizzou has been at in the last 20 years probably.
I also predict that Oklahoma will fall on this list. They’re not used to playing such a tough schedule. They won’t drop like Nebraska did, but they’ll go somewhat lower. I’m not sure Texas will fall because they’ve been underperforming anyway. I’m shocked Texas A&M is as low as they are; it seems like they almost have to go up. It will be interesting to see if Alabama falls off post-Saban.
Alabama - 17, 17
Oklahoma - 19, 15
Georgia - 19, 14
LSU - 17, 10
Texas - 13, 8
Florida - 12, 6
Missouri - 10, 6
Auburn - 13, 5
Tennessee - 7, 3
Ole Miss - 7, 3
South Carolina - 7, 3
Arkansas - 7, 3
Kentucky - 5, 2
Texas A&M - 11, 1
Mississippi State - 8, 1
Vanderbilt - 2, 0
I was thinking about how to measure it, and there are really two things that matter: good seasons, so eight wins or more, and great seasons, so ten wins or more. If you have more good and great seasons, that builds up your football prestige, and the higher your prestige, the higher you are in the SEC hierarchy. I picked a 20 year range because once a season is more than 20 years ago it gets kind of antiquated and less relevant.
Mizzou comes out about in the middle, bolstered by the great Pinkel years, plus Drinkwitz is getting us back to that level this year. I really do think we can keep having that kind of success thanks to the new rules with NIL and the transfer portal. For whatever reason, historically, our boosters weren’t playing the bag man game as much or as well as the football powers. But we seem to be playing the NIL game quite well. So I predict over the next 10 to 20 years, our place on this list will be just as good or better. I doubt we’ll get to the elite level of an LSU or a Georgia, but we can live in that range that Texas/Florida/Auburn/Mizzou has been at in the last 20 years probably.
I also predict that Oklahoma will fall on this list. They’re not used to playing such a tough schedule. They won’t drop like Nebraska did, but they’ll go somewhat lower. I’m not sure Texas will fall because they’ve been underperforming anyway. I’m shocked Texas A&M is as low as they are; it seems like they almost have to go up. It will be interesting to see if Alabama falls off post-Saban.
